ggk@tirith.UUCP (Gregory Kritsch) (11/25/20)
Hmm, I just remembered something related to the thread right now about
possibly using GCR at 2 us to double disk data. I know the GCR
technique won't work. However, as a thought, can the custom chips and
the Amiga disk drives handle disks encoded with RLL rather than MFM?
You could figure on getting about 1.2 Meg on a floppy, if you could
write a device driver for it. I imagine it would be more processor
intensive than the mfm encoder, but it might be worthwhile.
I'd love to play with it myself, but I don't know how to rll encode
stuff, and I haven't quite figured out the disk hardware yet (I can
write, and I can read, but what I read isn't related to what I write).
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